The Sun. — London, England, 1836-11-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have been rather amused by the statement in a reSpectable Sunday Contemporary, that Lady W ham cliffe was to be appointed Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen. We see no great harm in this addition to the other incurables on her Majesty's establish ment ; and, if there is, we have consolation in the re flection that it proves the utter disbelief of the Tory brawlers, and we know none so loud as the Baron of Wharncliffe, in the prospects of their return to power, with which they have bemendeavouring to stultify their pot-companions at the late Conservative dinners throughout the country. Poor Baron ! the last of Court country Gentlemen, to be driven to his last ex tremity—to accept such crumbs from the Court Scullery, under a Whig Administration, in despair of Iris restoration to the Privy Seal under a Tory one ! We can scarcely credit the story—it would be " too bad." And after all, as our Contemporary says, there •may be some inconvenience in having wives of former Cabinet Ministers, and of former Ca binet Ministers who still dream of supplanting the the Government, in too many belchambers at Court. It is said that the friends of Lord de Roos press his pretensions for the next vacancy of Lord of the Bed chamber. Truly, these Tory Lords and Ladies have a wonderful itching for the crib and manger ; and to " turn an honest penny" at the expense of the public. --Morning Chronicle. In looking over the Notices officially published in this journal of Monday last, given under the New Re gistration Acts, some peculiarities have struck us, which we present to our readers. In reference to the first notice, it does not appear that the present paro chial mode of the registration of baptisms is at all in terfered with. Nothing is added to the present duties of the regular clergyman ; he is under no obligation to make a subsequent declaration of the act of baptism to any registrar or superintendent registrar. This seems just and proper, but we think that for want of such subsequent declaration (though we do not admit the right to force him to make one), the registration of births will prove deficient, and the new Act a failure. With respect to the registration of deaths, there are, it strikes us, some serious inconsistencies or absurdities in the notice just published. The notification of the death maybe given within five days, and must be given, if called for, within eight days of its occur rence, to the registrar ; but among the poor how many bodies are kept eight, or even five, days before inter ment ? We may, we believe, answer roundly, none ; and yet any clergyman interring a corpse without a certificate of registration from the registrar is liable to a penalty of 101. Is every corpse, then, to be kept beyond eight days, in order that the clergyman may have the certificate ? No—another condition is an nexed ; he will be exempt from such penalty if he give notice of the interment at the next register-office. Upon the clergyman, therefore, will fall the whole weight of a second and most onerous species of regis tration—that at the public office, after the usual entry in his parish register. He must go to the public office an I state that he has buried a person, of the death of whom no notice is yet made in what is called " The National Register ;" for the omission of that notice, after eight days at the farthest, is a contempt of the law, and the clergyman is thus -made a general in former I His notice or information will be the only original groundwork for a legal proceeding. The truth you will afterwards find to be this—that of the millions of poor who die, no notice whatever will be given to the register except that which is conveyed by the in terring clergyman ; so that at last you get nothing more with respect to deaths than the parish register repeated at needless cost to the country, and unre warded trouble to the parochial clergy. But now comes the most -remarkable part of the whole with respect to both these notices. What punishment or penalty is to be inflicted or imposed on those who neglect to go to the register-office to give notice of the birth or a death of a relative, or connexion, or alien lodger ? We answer, none ! None whatever at least is specified in these notices. A false registry of birth renders the offender liable to a penalty of 50/. 1 . But how is no registry at all to be prevented or punished ? Why, those who neglect registration of births and deaths altogether are gravely told, " That persons failing to do that which is by an Act of Par liament enjoined are indictable for a misdemeanour, although no specific penally is imposed by the Act which they have so disobeyed !" Here's legislation for you Now, in answer to this assertion we say, that it is at least very doubtful whether, a statute being provided in any case, a person neglecting obedi ence to the requirements of that statute is indictable at common law. In the present instance, the statute creates the offence, and must therefore specify the penalty, if there be any. Nor is this all. If dis obedience to a statute which does not carry its own protection with it be a misdemeanour, it can only be punished by personal infliction ; for no one, it is clear, can take money at will out of a fellow subject's .pocket for not doing this or that thing ; no one can in such a case sue for damages. May a poor man then be cast into prison, or put in the stocks, because, occupied with his daily labours, he has neglected to go to a public registry-office to cause the insertion of the death of his child, or his parent, or the partner of his toils ? So say our liberal Whig Mi nisters and their enlightened followers in the present enlightened House of Commons. But we say, that they dare not punish a man or woman corpoteally for doing nothing—for simply abstaining from any act of which they have thought proper to enjoin the per formance. Every body knows that a much better intentioned act, the act of Elizabeth, imposing a fine for not going to church, became a dead letter from the moment of its birth. We know that the House of Lords has corrected many crudities, has rationalized many absurdities, which have been sent up to them : they may have let some pass through inadvertence, or perhaps in order to let the nation see what kind of le gislators we were likely to have, if all were left to the reformed portion of Parliament. Take one of these acts as a specimen, and the rest are strictly of a piece. " Some person present at a death, or in attendance during thelastillness, must, if required, give information at the registry-office of the district of the following particulars, videlicet :-1. The day of death. 2. The name and surname of the person who died. 3. The sex. 4. Age. 5. Rank. 6. Cause of death." And in neglect of giving such informa tion—" They are informed, that failing to do that which is enjoined by Act of Parliament, they are indictable for a misdemeanour, though no spe i: , cific penalty is enjoined by the Act which they have so disobeyed !" " They are indictable !" Who are indictable ? Sonic person present at a death, or in attendance during the last illness ! Was ever trash so base known to issue from a legislative body ? It has often been our lot to rous e the p eo p le of En g la nd , on occasions calling for their indignation or cont em pt. Certainly our columns will not be blank when the fu tile attempt shall be made, in March next, to give efficacy to propositions of this nature. With respect to the Marriage Registration Act and the notice now given under it, as it leaves the marriages of our Church where it found them, with only the optional substitu tion of previous registration, instead of bans or li cense, we shall pass this over briefly. Th e y may 1)6 married in any other way that they pleas e ; but the morals of the people are purer than those of their pre sent governors. How will such marriages be viewed in society ? Have not Lords Melbourne and J. Rus sell begun yet to fine( out how difficult it is to with draw the people of England from the trammels of their Church ? We'will tell them why. They are trammels imposed by reason, piety, and learning united. Any other bonds would have been broken by them, like chains of sand ; but these still enfold them with inex tricable links.—Times. It is right to give praise where praise is due. The Common Council of London has certainly acted in a libezal and handsome manner by voting 5001. to wards the fund for erecting metropolitan churches. The requisition which had been addressed to the Lord Mayor on the subject was signed, it appears, by up rds of 50 names of persons of different political ~_.; (- . t .. and to re t l h ia e ious / . ( .....-1) 4 ometropolitan persuasions. cor p This orati on w . a s crh e ; highly e. p ? ... .. 1: 1 ._:_ - it -,', which Mr. Deputy Corney, the mover . of 1--....) f'-41e - 4n6 introduced the question were exceedingly _.., : lier.tinit L and judicious, with one exceptio n to which k;i T : - .::.,.;i7tif' . .a': I 'presently advert. He said he " w a s grad i THE SON. LoNDON, MONDAY, NWIEMBER 28, 1836. fled at the opportunity of bringing. forward such a subject at the commencement of a mayoralty. The an cients used to introduce their officers of justice with initiatory sacrifices, in the expectation of a prosperous event to their selection ; and he trusted that the intro duction of the grant at the beginning of the Lord Mayor's career would be the forerunner of much good to the community, and redound greatly to the honour of the citizens of London. The object of the grant was to supply moral and religious instruction in places where a . ,cia the absence of moral and religious education was mo st deeply felt—the suburbs ,of the anetropolis." We cannot go all the length of believing, with the worthy Deputy, that the outskirts of London produce all the vices which infest the city, hut undoubtedly in the outskirts are to be found the impure sources of a great portion of the depravity and crime which contaminate the moral atmosphere of London. Not long since Mr. C. Pearson showed that another large portion of the evil is generated in the great city prison, where the coercion of crime had long been closely interwoven with the process of its reproduction. But this last source of public demoralization, we trust, will be soon reformed ; and as to the vices of the neglected suburbs, nothing can be , a more effectual, though it must be a gradual corrective, than carrying through the vicein fested regions the purifying streams of religious and moral instruction. Talk of a preventive police, in deed ! The preventive police of France can destroy liberty—can invade the privacy of every man's domi cile—can almost suppress the voice of public opinion, by wielding its arbitrary powers against the indepen dence of the Press—can discover political plots that never existed—can spread alarms of its own creat ing, but cannot restrain crime. Mild laws, fairly and judiciously administered, may do much a to nd wards correcting and reform in g p ublic morals, so make the punishment of crime subservient to its prevention : but the most efficient preventive police is a sound system of popularinstruction—the instruc tion which teaches the people their moral and religious duties, impressing their minds with the obligations of Christianity, from the observance of which proceed social peace, contented industry, temperance, and the domestic virtues. This is the 'preventive police which interferes not with political freedom or private liberty, and which crushes the seeds of crime without oppres sing the independence of a people. It was to the mode of preventing crime that Deputy Corney alluded, when he said that " to counteract the effects of the des perate evil which he had described, it was proposed that additional churches should be built, in which pa rish priests, like those whom England used to boast of, should give religious instruction. Every body knew that if the water at Chelsea was pure, London would feel the advantage ; just so it was with the sources of moral and religious sentiment, which would, through the instrumentality of the fund, tend to the advantage of the City." We trust that the Established Church at the present day has many clergymen la bouring in the vineyard of Christian instruction "like those whom England used to boast of." One went down to the grave within a few days, full of years and of the glory which the grave cannot extinguish. The name of Simeon was but one of the highest names among a class whose beneficent labours have a higher incentive than the perishing praise of man. We said that there was one exception to the pertinent and judicious remarks with which Mr. Deputy Corney introduced his motion. In saying so, we alluded to the following passage in .his speech Some time ago the Bishop of London and the Chairman of the London Bridge Committee, contemplated an improvement of the description now proposed, and suggested the re moval of several of the City Churches in order to effect the object. The cry of desecrate the Church, however, was raised, and the popular clamour occasioned the abandonment of one of the most useful projects. He trusted that as no cry of the kind could now be raised, no objection would be started." How, we ask, can any cry of the kind be now raised ? The object is not now to destroy, but to construct—not to pull down, but build up. We do not think it was in the best taste to introduce that subject just now, in connection with the promotion of the subscription for building au addi tional number of metropolitan Churches ; but since it has been so introduced, we cannot pass it by in silence —for, if it were an offence to oppose that design, and to denounce that scheme of destruction on the plea of improvement, we must plead guilty to the charge, and take all the responsibility of being among the first and principal offenders. We are glad it is in our power to contradict one part of the statement, and that is that the Bishop of London was a consenting party to a plan for demolishing at one fell swoop, if we recollect right, about 23 City Churches, afterwards reduced to 17. We did our utmost at a time when there was consi derable popular excitement, and levelling doctrines were in more favour than at present, to avert the omen and prevent the evil of that wholesale work of destruc tion. What does the worthy Deputy mean by po pular clamour ? All the respectable inhabitants of those parishes whose Churches were threatened, and, we are happy to say numbers of Dissenters, as well as Churchmen, went with us, and joined in the resistance to the desecration and destruction of so many of those temples of Christian worship with which the emporium of commerce is sanctified and adorned. We are not ashamed to say that, besides their holy uses, we prized these temples of religion as beautiful works of art, almost all of them being the productions of the genius of Sir Christopher Wren ; and when we say that St. Stephen's, Walbrook, where an able preacher now draws a numerous congregation, was one of those origi nally pointed out to be taken down, we need go no further in illustrating the Vandalism of the design. We will only observe that St. Edmund's, the King and Martyr, where attentive crowds have been edified by the eloquent preaching of the Rev. Hartwell Home, was another. But what was the pretext then alleged for the demolition of all those parish Churches in the city ? It was that they stood in the way of projected improvements. Deputy Corney says they were to be taken down to be re-constructed elsewhere. We do not understand what is meant by this, except it be that the old materials were to be worked up into new Churches ; unless the Churches as they were could be miraculously removed, like the house of our Lady of Loretto, from the city to the suburbs ! Great con sternation prevailed among the parishioners, who, with their families, felt a sort of domestic venera tion for the places of worship where their fathers worshipped before them, and round the walls of which the ashes of their ancestors reposed. Need we remind our readers that Counsel were retained i6_oppose the design—that two advocates . a pp eared, "at the bar of the 'Common Council to support pe titions of rectors, churchwardens, and parishioners, against what they considered both an unnecessary and an unhallowed project--that one of those Counsel did address the Court, and that a day was fixed to hear the other ; but in the mean time the better feeling pre vailed in the Common Council, the projectors of the measure saw it would be fruitless to press it, and the design was abandoned. We now say that it was sub sequently denied on behalf of the Bishop of London —denied most distinctly and positively—that lie had ever given his consent, to the Church -destroying project as had been reported. It was not our wish to recur Just now to this unpleasant subject, but it has been forced upon us—upon us, and the part which we took iii (Wendi ng those sacred edifices at the time, has the attack been made. To that attack we opp ose the p lain facts of the case,' which then were the i ncentives to ou r conduct, an d now constitute our vindication. Let us add, the upon that occasion, the part taken by se veral Disnters, who were me mbers of the Comm on Connell, 'n'-s_,,Fich as reflected on them the hig hest cre dit for gentiii. liberality of feeling and true Chris tian sentiment. -11107 fling Herald. Our efforts to procure th e fi rst an d f u ll es t a ccount of the discussion which took plac e in the General Association of Ireland, on the report of the Committee appointed to deliberate on the resolutions of Mr. Sharman Crawford, have again been successful, as was seen by the exclusive account in our paper of Saturday of the proceedings whk place on Thursday evening, at the Corn ich too Exchange, Dublin. The influence which these proceedings must exercise in the appreaching Session of Parliament, as well as the importance of the question on which the Irish peopl e have now solemnly, and deliberately; and determinedly reiterated the verdict which they had already pro nounced against the misapplied exactions of the Church, have rendered the recent discussions of the General Association of the first national interest. This consideration induced us to make arrangements, what ever might be the expense, to lay before our readers the earliest, most accurate, and ample reports of the pro ceedings of the General Association. Our efforts have been successful almost beyond our expectations. Our readers and most of our Contemporaries have appreciated them ; and if we feel more than usual exultation in the results, we trust our feelings are not altogether without Al, considering the importance of the object, to charitable indulgence. We have so undeviati n g l y ad vocated the principles embraced in the resolutions of Mr. Sharman Crawford, that it is unnecessary for us now to state that they have our unqualified approba tion ; and we rejoice that, by their unanimous adoption, the General Association has proved itself worthy to be acknowledged as the rept esentative of public opinion in Ireland. We defy the Orange and Tory faction to s how any flaw in the justice of these principles. The first resolution asserts that no man should pay for the ordinances of a Church with which he is not in com munion. He who would maintain the contrary result, must discard all feelings of right and wrong, and found his rule of action on the distich so applicable to the conduct of the Church of Ireland :- 1 " That they may take who have the power, And they may keep who can." The other resolutions are scarcely more than corol laries of the ffist, to the effect that the tithe com position being appropriated to the uses of the Church of only one-tenth of the population, nothing short of the total extinction of an impost so applied, and so oppressive and degrading, can give satisfaction to the people of Ireland. In resolving never to desist from all legal and constitutional exertion until this principle be carried into full and perfect operation, the " General Association," or, in other words, the people of Ireland, give a pledge to support the present Go vernment in everything not involving a violation of principle ; and repeats the expression of gratitude and unbounded confidence "in the just, firm, im partial, and patriotic Government" of Lord Mulgrave. The fiat of the Irish people has now formally gone forth in favour of religious toleration, and to the exe cution of that fiat it will be vain to offer resistance. Were it not for the Lords, the Church might for sonic time longer have enjoyed a superabundant revenue ; but in refusing a compromise, the Peers have provoked the people of Ireland into the assertion of the full extent of their claims ; and if the Church be ultimately left to be supported only by own members—as there is scarcely a doubt that it shall be—it is on the Peers of England the responsibility must fall. To them will be long the merit of unwittingly hastening the consumma tion of the justice which they have so virulently op osed. It is the Peers who have gi ven " the deadl y blow" to the tithe system, the abolition of which is the best means of promoting the true interests of the Protestant religion. A whole people, after submitting for years to persecution, and waiting with unexampled patience for even the chance of redress—after being denounced as aliens, and threatened with reconquest, insult, being measured to them in proportion to their forbearance, goaded by every means of exasperation— they do not yield to the impulse of a just indignation, and seek redress by violent means, but in the conscious ness of their powers, solemnly record-their determina tion never to cease their exertions until their just claims be complied with. Let any man examine the debates of the General Association and the truculent exhibi tions of the Tories, or even the late debates of the House of Lords itself, and decide for himself in which is the greatest respect manifested for order, decency, and constitutional principle. The Peers are now fairly arrayed -against the people of Ireland—whose cause is the same as that of England and Scotland—and with even one-third of the force which is ready to be put in action in support of Reform, the triumph of justice is inevitable. Where can the Lords find materials of effectual resistance to the demands of Ireland ? Will England and Scotland attempt a reconquest of that country, and rivet the fetters of their own thraldom ? It is not likely—nay, it is impossible. Where, then, are the means to hold Ireland enslaved? Let echo answer where !—Morning Advertiser. It is very remarkable that the question of a French intervention in Spain is again revived, but on far dif ferent grounds from those on which it has heretofore been placed. Who could imagine that the fates of Don Carlos and of the Queen Isabel are dependant on the marriage of the Duke of Orleans, and the slight which the family of Louis Philippe has received by the preference given to the K in g of Na p les, and by the general indisposition which the great European Courts show to an alliance with it ? But such is the fact ; and if, after having won his way to a Crown, the Spanish Monarch should find it suddenly vanish from his sight, he will have to deplore the pride which drove his power ful neighbour from a connection with those Powers that are vivified by the same principle with him, and throws him, per force, into the hands of the liberal party. The position of the family of Orleans is in truth humiliating, and the head of it feels that he holds a very critical position—detested by a large party of his own subjects for having abandoned the principles w hich placed him on the throne, and deserted by those Sove reigns for whose favour he avoids;his former friends. He is therefore in a difficulty which is almost too try ing for his able head. Is he to be King according to the ideas of the Holy Alliance, or to relapse into the Monarchy of the Barricades ? That is the question which circumstances are calling on him to resolve, but which he is most unwilling to answer. He post pones it from day to day ; but young Henry of France is constantly before his eyes, growing up to man' s estate, arid of as much value in a question of mere succession as his own sons,. in ease he cannot esta blish them before the Duke de Bourdeaux is entitled to advance his claims. Lou is Philippe, therefore, driven from the high quarters where lie had flattered Himself he would be well received, has turned his at tention to the minor powers of Europe. It seems there are nine Princesses of Royal blood in Europe between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, five of whom have already declined an alliance with the House of Orleans. Negociations are on foot with some of the other four ; and certainly if they all con cur in the refusal, it will be hard to calculate what the effects may be on the temper and policy of the King of the French. It is understood that an agent has just been despatched to the Court of Baden, to solicit the hand of a Princess for either of the brothers, and the future peace of the Continent may be said to depend upon the result of that mission.—Morn. Post. At the meeting of the Town-Council of Ayr on Wednesday, the freedom of the burgh was unanimously voted to Lord James Stuart, in testimony of the Council's approbation of his Lordship's Parliamentary conduct. The weather is anything but propitious far harvest work. Saturday and Sabbath the sky was clear, yet the air was moist ; and, in consequence of the previous rains, the stOoked corn was not fit for the stack-yard even up to Sunday night. Early last Monday morning we had a fall of rain, and in this county the prospect of the upland farmer is anything but flattering.—Ayr Paper On Thursday information of the following robbery was circulated throughout the various divisions of police : On Tuesday last, between the hours of four and ten in the evening, the house of Mr. Fenn, a working-jeweller, at No. , Soho, was entered and s rable amo s unt, consiting 1 p i t u , n L d i e t r t e l e d C o f h a p propertyel-stre Chapel-street, aS con St. A considerable a n' e of gold rings, keys, diamond pins, brooches, necklaces, and snuff boxes, together with a silver tea-pot and a variety of other articles of plate. The felony was effected during the absence of the family, and by means of skeleton keys. HORRID CRUELTY.—One day last week, in a house at Prestwick toll, inhabited by several families, a cat belonging to one of them took it into her head to pay a visit to a neighbouring mouser ; and, in so doing, came in contact with some butter, which she made free to taste, and afterwards went home. When the guidwife (should she be called so?) missed her butter, she went immediately to the owner of puss and scolded and swore like a fury, and demanded payment for her loss, which was refused. She then seized upon poor puss, which was with young, carried her home, actually cut her through the middle, and return ing to the owner's house with the carcass, threw it in at the door, saying, " Now, then, there's your cat.”—Ayr Observer. On Sunday, the 20th inst., nine shearers were busy at work the whole of the day in a corn field about two miles from Rochdale. The greater part of the corn is yet standing in the field.—Manchester Guardian. MARCH OF ORTHOGRAPHY. —A board is exhi bited i n a shop window in Wild-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on which is painted the following :—" Boots and shues cloned, carpitts beat, mescegess and parsells cairfully de liverd.,N,l3, A truck to bee let. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CII4NCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 26. SPURRIER V. PRATT. This motion was resumed this morning. The object was to restrain the defendant, who was the owner of che mical works at Birmingham, from working the manufactory to such an extent as to be a nuisance to the property of the plaintiff, which was adjacent to the works. Evidence to a very voluminous extent was produced, to show the dele terious nature of the manufactory, and the extent to which it had latterly been carried. Works of the same descrip tion had for many years been carried on upon the same pre mises ; but they had for the last few years been so extended, to the prejudice of the plaintiff's property, as to compel him to have recourse to legal proceedings. As the pro perty was on lease the plaintiff had only at present a re versionary interest, in respect of which he had brought an action against the defendant, and recovered 5/. damages. This, it was contended, established his right to have the nuisance abated. The Solicitor-General appeared in support of the mo tion ; Mr. Knight for the defendant. His HONOUR said this was a case in which there had been an acquiescence in the continuation of the works for nearly 40 years ;. during which time, by the plaintiff's own showing, there bad been a gradual increase in the size of the manufactory. And it would put a stop to all manufac tories of this naturo in the country, if they might be allowed to increase to a certain point, and might then be put a stop to, on the ground of nuisance. . Motion refused, with costs, couRT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nor. 26. WEBB V. RHODES. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a solicitor, against the defendant, the opulent cowkeeper, for the re covery of a sum of 141., due at, the foot of a bill of costs. The plaintiff, who resides at Reading, was solicitor for a lady named Mary Ann Knight, and Mrs. Knight agreed with the defendant to grant him a lease of certain premises, which he was desirous of possessing. The plaintiff was accordingly employed to prepare the necessary agreement ; and in it was contained a clause, to the effect, that the par ties agreed " that th• said lease and counterpart shall be prepared by Mr. Webb, the solicitor of the lessor, at the costs and charges of the said John Rhodes." Before the lease and counterpart could be prepared, Mrs. Knight died, and the plaintiff now insisted that, under the stipulation in the agreement, the defendant was bound to pay the amount of the costs incurred for preparing the agreement. The verdict was taken by consent for the amount claimed by the plaintiff, with liberty to the defendant to move for a nonsuit. lIELLYER V. lIELLYER. The action in this case was brought by the plaintiff against the defendant, for the recovery of the amount of a promissory note for 6701. and interest ; and the defence re lied on in the plea of the defendant was the statute of li mitations. The parties were brothers. The note bore date in 1824, but the interest was paid up to 1829. The last payment, amounting to 331., was made in April, 1831 ; and this, it was contended, took the case out of the statute.—The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff Damages, 856/. • EXCHEQUER COURT, Nor. 26. KEPPELL AND WIFE V. PARAGREEN. This was an action to recover damages for an assault and false imprisonment. The plaintiffs were matt and wife. Mrs. Keppel, in September last, went into the shop of the defendant, who carries on the business of a baker in Tot tenham-court-road, to buy some bread, in payment of which she put down a half-sovereign. The young woman behind the counter, who served the bread, examined the coin, as if she thought it was a counterfeit, on observing which Mrs. Keppell said that if she entertained any doubt of the half sovereign being genuine she could give her another, which she according tendered. Defendant came in meanwhile, and, having taken up both the half-sovereigns, he examined them, and pronounced them to be bad. The defendant and some persons who were standing in the shop discussed the matter, and defendant went out and brought in a police ' man, to whom he gave Mrs. Keppel in charge. The police man, with Mrs. Keppel in his custody, then proceeded towards the station-house ; but on his way thither was overtaken by the defendant, who said that, upon further consideration, he was disposed to think the coins were good, and therefore he requested that the woman would be set free. The policeman said he had no power to do so—that having once got her in charge, he should proceed to the station-house, where defendant should attend to follow it up, or else abandon it. They then went on, and on their way passed by Mrs. Keppel's house, when she requested the policeman to stop, that she might inform her family of the situation in which she was placed. This the police man could not allow. Upon arriving at the station-house, followed by a g reat crowd of persons, the inspector weig hed the coins, and found them to be good, upon which defen , dant gave her a sovereign for the two half ones, and she was discharged. His LORDSIIIP found for the plaintiff.—Damages 251. CONSISTORY COURT, Nor. 26. HEATIICOTE V. IIEATIICOTE4 In this, which was originally a suit for divorce, on the grounds of cruelty and adultery, promoted by Mrs. Heath cote against her husband, judgment was given in May last in f a vour of his wife. The question respecting the allotment of permanent alimony was brought before the Court on the last session, when the Learned Judge allotted 1,6001. per annum as permanent alimony. The KING'S ADVOCATE, this day, on behalf Mr. Heath cote, prayed the Court to rescind its decision respecting the permanent alimony which it had granted to Mrs. Heath cote. This application was made on the grounds that the Court had been taken by surprise, and had been labour ing under a mistake when it gave its judgment respecting the permanent alimony, and was not in possession of the whole truth. Dr. ADDAMS on behalf of Mrs. Heathcote, expressed his doubt whether it was in the power of the Court to re scind its judgment. The PitoeToa for Mrs. Heathcote prayed the Court to grant a monition by ways and means for the purpose of obtaining costs and alimony amounting to about 1,200/., which was due, as Mr. Heathcote endeavoured in every possible way to avoid the process of the Court. The CounT decreed the monition to issue as prayed for. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. In our report of the proceedings at this office on Friday last we stated that on that day a solicitor attended before the Loan MAYOR, in obedience to a summons issued in consequence of a complaint made on the part of a Clergy man, who was some time ago robbed of a bill of exchange, in which a forgery was subsequently committed. The Clergyman in question (son of a person of high dignity at the Bar), wanting 2001., applied to an advertising money lender, who produced a check upon the Bank of England for 200/., and at the same time a stamp, with the figures 20n1. on the corner of it, and stated that the Clergyman was to write his name across it. This being done, the money lender said some little form was necessary about the check, and appointed a meeting in one hour ; but neither he nor the money had since been seen. At the end of two months, however, the Clergyman was called on, demanding payment for his acceptance, not for 2001., but for 5001. when it appeared that a piece of paper had been pasted over the sum 200/., and immediately under was the sum 5001. ; that it was dated August, and ran thus :—" Two months after date pay to my order 5001., value received." The solicitor summoned was the person in whose hands the hill had been seen, and it was expected that he would pro duce the instrument and the party who had employed him to sue upon it. The solicitor said his client had taken the bill away, and, although he was required to attend before gone out of town. After some the LoRD MAYOR, he ha d conversation, a summons was issued for the attendance of the holder of the bill. On Saturday the parties again attended, and in answer to the Lord Mayor Forrester, the officer, had served the summ o n s on the holder of the bill, and was informed by him that he certainly should attend. The holder's solicitor had seen the holder more lately, and he (the holder) declined to attend, by the advice of Counsel, until he should be prepared with evidence to prove that the transaction was bona fide on his part. The LORD MAYOR—Do you know the persons whose names are at the back of the hill ? Solicitor—l iknow only one of them, and he is in a debtor's prison. From him my client received the bill, and it will be necessary, he was advised, to procure a habeas corpus to obtain that gentle• man's evidence in proof that the amount of the bill, with the deduction of 35/. as a bonus for discounting it, was paid by him in two bank-post bills for 100/. each, and a check for 26Z/. Mr. Clarkson—Have you any objection to say whether your client said this morning that he had or had not the bill ? Solicitor—l should rather not answer that question. Mr. Clarkson wished that a second summons should be issued to the holder of the bill. The Loan MAYoR directed that the summons should issue on Tuesday week, as the Sessions commenced on Mon day, and he assured Mr. Clarkson that his utmost exertions should be used to bring the concoctors of this nefarious schema to justice. GUILDHALL. A lad named William Osborne, who said 'le was a ss i s , ant to the draymen at Elliot's brewery, was charged wit having drowned a person of the names of Hayes. The Magistrate remanded the prisoner till Monday. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. Mr. Roberts, the paving-rate collector of St. James's, summoned Mr. Turgand, of Copthall-buildings, for ob- ,jetting to pay the paving-rate levied on the house of a bankrupt, in Piccadilly. The objection taken by the de fendant was, that official assignees were not liable to such demands. The case was ordered to stand over a few days. UNION-HALL. Two men, named Capper and Dyer, were charged with practising the greatest cruelty towards a donkey, by having, on the preiious evening, dragged it in a field, the one by the tail and the other by the head, in different ways, and then left it in a ditch, where it was found next morning with its tongue almost torn out by the roots. The poor creature was in so dreadful a state that it was found ne cessary to kill it. The prisoners said they were " only hav ing a lark." They were sentenced to one month's hard labour in the House of Correction. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, NOV. 26.—The Spitfire steamer arrived at Falmouth on Thursday with the Mediterranean mails. Our fleet was at Malta when the Spitfire left there ; and at Cadiz she found lying the Hercules, Magicienne, Pique, and Partridge. The following is from a correspondent : " MALTA, Nov. 2, 1836.—The squadron lying here, under the command of Sir Josias Rowley ; consists of Cale donia (flag), Asia, Canopus, Thunderer, Revenge, Edin burgh, Vernon, Barham, with the Nautilus, cutter Hind, and the Ceylon (with the flag of Sir I'. Briggs.) The Favourite sailed on the 31st ult. on a cruise. " All the Royal Marine Artillery, with their field train under the command of Colonel Parke, have embarked on board the Thunderer—report here says, to be put on board the squadron in the Tagus." The Gibraltar, 80, formerly the Phcenix, and captured from the Spaniards in 1780, has recently been taken to pieces, in Pembroke. The mahogany and cedar of which she was built has been taken care of; and is to be brought into whatever uses it is applicable. The Linnet packet, Lieutenant Downey, arrived at Fal mouth on Thursday, from Mexico. Sailed from Tampico the 29th of September, Vera Cruz the 26th, and Havannah the 23d of October ; on freight about 300,000 dollars. The Sarah convict ship, for Hobart Town, is now at Spithead, taking in convicts from this Port. APPOINTMENTS.—Captain Daniel Pring is to succeed to the command of the Inconstant ; Lieutenant W. Loring, Mr. F. Webster, College Volunteer (from Semarang), and Mr. William Broom, gunner, are appointed to the Carys fort ; Lieutenant Lord Henry Russell, to the Hastings ; Mr. Robert St. Aubyn, Mate of the Excellent, to the Dido ; Mr. Francis Freeling, College Mate to the Excel lent ; Mr. H. T. Rogers, Assistant Surgeon to the Asia ; Dr. Livesay, Assistant-Surgeon to the Thunderer. (From the Dtvonport Telegraph.) DEVONPORT, Nov. 26.—The Rhadamanthus steamer proceeded on Thursday, in company with the Devon lighter, with stores and ammunition for Lord John Hay's squadron. The Elipse packet, which has been unrigged preparatory to her being paid off at this port, is ordered to proceed to Chatham, where it is expected another vessel will be com missioned in her room. The Endymion, 50, Captain Sir Samuel Roberts, was paid off yesterday. The Tamar, 26, is ordered to be sold. Commander Devonshire, of the Talavera, and Comman der Munday, are named as likely to be appointed second in command of the Stag. Remaining in Hamoaze—Royal Adelaide, San Josef, Pigeon, Eclipse, Spitfire steam-vessel, and Goodwill lighter. In the Sound—Talavera and Britomart. At Spithead on Wednesday—lnconstant and Conway. In Harbour—Britannia,Victory, Excellent, Royal George, Pantaloon, Hyacinth, Atholl, Semarang, Fanny, Emerald, and Goshawk, tenders. EFFECTS OF THE VIOLENT GALES ON THE COAST OF FRANCE. " Calais, Wednesday, Nov. 23 " Yesterday this town experienced one of the most vio lent hurricanes that has been felt for some years past. Du ring the night the wind blew with that fury from the N.N.W., that it was expected that the pier, which may be considered the strongest in this country, would have been blown down, from the impetuosity of the wind and waves dashing against it, which shook every pile, and unloosened the huge stones that serve as a breakwater from their strong iron cranks. It was impossible for the douaniers, or Cus tom-house soldiers, who are stationed every night at the pier head, to give an alarm, by the ringing of a bell, in case of any vessel being in distress, and also to keep a look out for the " contrabandiers," to stand upon their legs, and the guerritte, a small-sentry-box at the end, was blown into the foaming element, and also the large fleur-de-lis at the top of the marble monument, erected to commemorate the land ing and safe return of Louis XVIII., to this country, after his long exile, and to express their joy at the event the good Calisans have had the shape of his Majesty's out-of proportioned foot cut out in the steps, which is often com pared with that of the numerous travellers who land here from England. The effects of the hurricane has not only been felt at sea but by land, as for miles, on the St. Omer, Dunkerque, and Boulogne roads, all the young trees have been torn up by their roots, and a great number of thatched cottages levelled to the ground. It is reported that several vessels have been wrecked between here and Ostend, and five fishing-boats belonging to this port arc missing ;it is hoped that they have either reached the opposite coast or put into Boulogne. " A most daring proof of the intrepidity and philanthro pic feeling of the English 'Sailors towards their fellow-sca faring comrades, be they of whatever nation they may, took place last night during the violent storm. A fishing-boat belonging to Boulogne, was on the point of sinking, having had her sails blown away, and her sides swamped. Her crew, consisting of six mon and two boys, had lost all hopes of being saved from a watery grave, and were trying with their oars to reach Calais, but the sea was too violent, when an English s muggling cutter, that had left here in the evening, fortunately rescued them, at the imminent danger of their own lives, and brought them safe into this port, and proceeded on their cruise. This is not the first instance of smuggling boats having rescued the lives both of the fish ermen of Lore and Boulogne, who are often overtaken in their dangerous avocation by severe gales, so that they cannot make either coast. The Channel at present has a most grand appearance like one foaming sheet. The life boats ordered to be built by Monsieur De Rhins, for the Minister of Marine, are expected to be ready in a month or six weeks, as at present the only assistance that can be afforded; ; to vessels in distress is by the pilot-boats, which very often cannot venture out, as they are not fitted for heavy seas, although well and strongly constructed. It is doubtful whether the mail-packet will be able to leave to-day for Dover, as it still blows violently. The damage done on the coast is expected to be very great, as a quan ity of pieces of wrecks have been thrown upon the sands. RAILROAD ACROSS THE ISTHMUS OF PANAMA. —The Company of Shareholders, at the head of which is Mr. Beddle, an United States man, and M. Azuero, a Co lombian, having lodged the necessary securities, and per fected their guarantees with the Government of New Grenada for the making of a railroad, as conceded to them by a decree of the 6th June last, and rendering navigable a stream which goes the remainder of the way across this Isthmus, which separates the Atlantic from the Pacific Oceans, the grant was finally perfected on the 26th of August, and the works are to be commenced without delay. —Colombian Paper. During the last week a report was spread in the village of Saulzoir that a horrible murder had been com mitted, that a man bad been cut into pieces, and that a hand covered with blood had been found. This report lost nothing in its circulation ; every atrocity was attached to it that could render it more horrible. The greffier proceeded to examine the mutilated member, when, on close inspection, it turned out to be nothing but a beetroot, which a freak of nature had made into that form. It is a most perfect re semblance in every particular of a human hand, even to the length of the different fingers.—Paris paper. The copyright, steel plates, and entire property of Lodge's celebrated work, the Portraits of Illustrious Per- sonages of Great Britain, with the accruing profits of the fifth edition, now publishing by Messrs. Harding and Lepard, were last week sold to Mr. William Smith, of Bouverie-street, for four thousand guineas. During the last week a girl, of the name of C. Mason, working in the Old Field, Pollockshaws, was sup posed to be with child, by one of the soldiers. She was taken badly on the night previous to Halloween, and, as she appeared next morning at her work, no notice of the affair took place, she having been as merry as the rest in cutting the tails off her old lovers coats, and pulling the stocks from the yards on Halloween night. But the fiscal of the Slms, from information, discovers the existence of some dark deed, and in consequence she was apprehended, and confessed that she threw her child over the Pollock shaws-bridge. Her sister and mother were takea rom Pol lockshaws in a coach along with the girl to Paisley, where she now lies awaiting her trial. No circumstance, for a great number of years, has caused such an extraordinary speculation as the above.—Caledonian Mercury. GOOD FRlDAYS.—Fridays are said to be unpro pitious days ; but now and then some favoured individual appears, upon whom the unlucky spell is powerless. For rest, the tragedian, seems to be one exception to the ge ral rule, as he was born on a Friday, received the first approval of a New York widienee on a Friday, o pened at the Park Theatre on a Friday, sailed from Havre on . his re t u rn home on a Friday, will leave for London rthe packet of the 16th, which falls on a Fr ida y , and, ace m or( mg English audience his present arrangements, will app ear before a n audience on a Friday also. Heretofore all Fridays have ..have been good Fridays to him,—Neto York Mirror, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Litelligeneer of Saturday.) TRADE OF LEEDS.—The unsettled state of the money market has had its effects upon the staple trade of the district during the last week or ten days. The manufac turers being anxious to quit their goods, and the merchants being reluctant to enter into unnecessary engagements , ex cept upon advantageous terms, parcels of goods have occa sionally been sold lower than the average run ; but the firmness of the wool market has prevented any material re duction, the principal clothiers choosing rather to limit their production. BRADFORD MARKET.—We had again an improved market on Thursday, and as there was a pretty numerous attendance of merchants prices were rather firmer. The yarn market was rather slack, and prices somewhat lower ; but there was rather more business done in the wool mar ket than for some weeks past. The stocks of both manu factured goods and yarns are comparatively small. HALIFAX MARKET.—The sales at this market on Wed nesday were more extensive than for some weeks past, but prices were understood to be rather lower, the manufac turers evincing a wish to convert their stocks into m oney, even at some sacrifice. The blanket trade at Heckmondewike has not been quite so brisk for the last two or three weeks as previously, but still their is a fair business doing. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE AND POWER LOOME.--In consequence of the rapid increase in the manufacture of drills in this town the manufacturers of plain goods have found great difficulty in procuring weavers, and have at length been utterly unable to supply the demand, especially in what may be termed heavy goods. This state of things has led to the trial of power looms, which are now found to weave heavy linens very well, and it is ascertained that, with the aid of the steam-engine, linen goods can be made at such price as to pay the weavers a higher rate of wages than they could make by weaving with handlooms. This will have the effect of giving activity to the plain line" trade, which was fast falling away, and filling the yarn bleach brounds with work, besides furnishing increased la bour to every other department connected with the manu facture, which, from the scarcity of weavers, had long been. in a state of inactivity. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 21.—This has been one of the dullest markets that has occurred for some months back ; many pieces have been offered for sale, but. buyers were very scarce. The few goods that have been sold are at reduced prices. As wool is expected to be lower purchasers are desirous of keeping their stock of flark nels as low as possible. Wool has been pretty steady to day, though some purchases have been made a shole lower ban on the previous week. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, NonurßEß 26. There is not any material change in the market this week. The demand for American cotton having become more general, and with it an increase of business, a greater degree of steadiness has been ob served, and our quotations of last week more readily obtained, though, in common and ordinary qualities, some von low sales have been made. lara.zils and Egyptians are still heavy of sale, and the, latter and Pornams have gone at a decline of full 1 ,4 d. per lb. In dia is without change. Exporters have taken 270 Surats, 50 Ben gal, and 100 American ; and speculators 1,500 American and 10 0 Pcrnams. 950 Surat, 100 Sea Island, and 150 Stained ditto, are declared for auction on Friday next. The imports are 4,175 from the Brazils, 800 from Egypt, 535 from the West Indies, and 242 from Calcntta ; total, 5,752 bags. The sales are— d. d. d. d. 32 Sea Islands.... 26 to 31 280 Maranhams 91 to 104 45 Stained ditto... 134 —l7 1,181 Pernams „,.., 104 —l3 6,904 Boweds . 74 —ll4 Madras 0 -- 0 Uplands o— 0 30 West India lO 0 2,268 Alabamas 64 —l2 Barbadoes - 0 4,460 Orleans 74 —lll 19 Demeraras 13 2,229 Surats 428 Bahias 15 Carthagenas - 0 63 Bengals ...... 4 0 Minas Total, 19,497 bags. We have had a better inquiry for cotton to-day than of late. The sales are estimated at 4,000 bales, principally American, from 7 1 4( 1 - to 11%d. up to 13d. for Orleans. 1,000 bales have been taken on speculation. Bales. Taken on speculation this year Same in 1835 Forwarded to the country unsold this year 44,860 Same in 1835 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year Increase of stock Increase of quantity taken for consumption Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 19th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year Into the Kingdom this year. American — South American .. West Indies, Demerara, &c. East Indies Bags. 716,79 5 150,1 05 - •: 7,001 .. 179,332 Egypt, &e. 31,062 Total of all descriptions 1,084,348 Same period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c.... 7,100 East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1836. American, 20,988 ; Brazil, 6,327 ; East India, 65,555 ; _ _ West India, 30 ; Other kinds, 20. Total in 1836 Same period last year Stock. Nov. 25, 1836 . . -- 237,290 Same time, 1835 Dr. Parr, in a letter to a friend, says, " There are certainly one or two luxuries to which I am addicted—th o first is a shoulder of mutton, not over-roasted nor under roasted, and richly encrusted with flour and salt ; th ° second is a plain suet pudding ; the third is a plain family plum pudding; and the fourth, a kind of high festival dish , consists in hot boiled lobsters, with a profusion of shrimP sauce." SILVER EDGED PLATED DISHES' T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his ShoW Rooms, a most extensive variety of CORNER DISHES. CO Set of F our var ies in p r i ce f rom S even t o T en G u i neas . T. O c SAVORY, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmak er ' 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—The Handles are made to remove from the Covers, which may be used as Dishes ; thus the Set will form Eight Dishes, wh ell required. BIRTHS. On the 25th inst., in Arlington-street, the Countess of Brec k ' nock, of a daughter. On the 24th inst., in Devonshire -street, Portland-place, the 124 of the Chevalier Francois Mortara, of a son. of On the 22d inst., at liawford Lodge, near Worcester, the 1.-1 Captain C. Pearson, of a daughter. On the 23d inst., in Devonshire-place, Mrs. R. F. Gower' c if a daughter. On the 24th inst., the lady of 3. Cockell, Esq., Bernard-str eet ' Russell-square, of a son. On the 23d inst., at the Ryes Lodge. near Sudbury, the lA' of N. C. Barnardeston, Esq., of a daughter. On the 23d inst., in Fitzroy-square, the lady of I. H. Chamber. Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Atworth, Wilts, the lady of the Rev. ..- 17thif. Lewis, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 24th inst., at Hawkehurelt, Devonshire, Joseph DoOs i t i ' Esq., of Limehouse, to Caroline, eldest daughter of the Rev- m " . Rudge, Rector of Hawkehurch. On the Bth inst., at Clifton, Gloucestershire, James Wallis, Esqt.O late Major of the 46th Regiment, and of Lucyville, near Cork, Hen , Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late T. Breach, Esq., 0 f ge don, Middlesex. of the lato J• DIED. illa eld On tl 23th , st., P -i the -,.._ . inst., erisci._ _ltts ' eldest daugn., __ Dimsdale, Esq., formerly of U , pton, Essex. • f On the 24th inst., aged 12 Elizabeth Anna, the only s urvie'" daughter of J. Thorp, Esq. - On the 23d inst., at Southampton, awed 80, Mrs. Pinnoekt 1)6 :w (low the late James Pinnock, Esq., of Devonshire-place, a nd of the island of Jamaica. On the 23d inst., at Clevedon, near Bristol, Jane Gay AlleYeei second daughter of the late lion. Sir John Gay Alleyne, Bart., 13arbadoes. On the 24th inst., aged 71, Captain Robert Torkington, of the R On oyal thMarinese 24th . inst., at East- end, Pinner, Middlesex, Chas. 1 0- renOn ce, q. Es, aged 0. the 6th inst.. 8 in Regent-street, Lambeth, Susannah, relict of Mr. J. Rider, of Paernoster-row. et, On the 20th inst t ., aged 85, Mrs. Brown, of Charlotte-street' Bedford-square, relict of R. Brown, Esq. On the 17th of July, on the vo y a g e to Batavia, John, eldest 508 of J. J. Forster, Esq., Russell -square. On the 25th inst., aged 81, John Smith, Esq., of Tottenhael' Middlesex. o f the On the 25th inst., aged 51, John Sparks Moline, Esq. , firm of Waring .and Moline. and M`Duff. Esq., of Melrose I nth _, of On the 21st inst., aged 13, Andrew, second son of I% r. d On the 17th inst., at Hackney-grove, Bream's -buildings, Chancery _lane. Waite, late of On the 21st inst., at Little Britain, Alr. Thomas Whitehaven, aged 25. , s . g ate, On the 21st inst., aged 82, Mrs. Thurston, of St. Mary In October, ttt St. Elmo, St. Sebastian, aged 27, Janet, relict of D. Solite , Derby. worthy Wills, of the Hospital Staff, British Auxiliary Legion, I ° son of Mr. G. L. NVills of Dartmouth. Sara h On the 20th inst , a ' t Acton Bottom, Middlesex, Mrs. Owen, aged 54. • Esq., ° tir o 2 1 . Esq. 40, George Acksis , On the 2 4 l ..( inst., at Cheltenham, aged Garland Le?l,,egs; of Moreton Hall, Cheshire. one of On the 22d inst., aged 68, J. Meates, Esq., many years . his Majesty's Foregn Messengers. ~,r„c u ett/ :)c . i fi in ld st• ~ Clay field, , haataSs.outhampton, Mary, relict of C. Mack No• London Printed and Published by 111URDO YOUNG, of 112, St r and, at The Sun Office, No. 11 4 , Strand, in the coun t y of Middlesex.--Uonday, Novemlor 28, 1636. 1